Cheating & Betrayal·
THE BOOT SCHEME
A Virginia woman's routine oil change spirals into a suspected sabotage case when her car leaks and a shop claims expensive axle work, prompting a legal fight.
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She took her car in for a simple oil change and tire rotation, and came back with a problem she says was never there before: a torn CV boot and a shop insisting both axles needed to be replaced.
The poster, a 23-year-old woman in Virginia, left her car at the mechanic and waited almost two hours for the routine service. When the work was supposedly done, the mechanic handed her a paper saying both axles needed replacement. That alone raised a red flag. She had heard enough stories about mechanics making things up, so she kept it short and said, "thanks I will have my dad check out my car."
The car had been bought used about five or six months earlier, and until then, she says, it had given no trouble at all.
Once she got home, her dad took a look. According to the poster, he found the car leaking a bunch of fluid and saw a large tear in the boot. The problem was the timing: there had been no leak before the shop touched it, and now there was.
He called the shop to ask what they had done. The response, she says, was that they had taken photos. Her dad pushed back and asked, "great can you send them to me so I can compare them to my photos"
The shop refused. She says they told him they couldn't send the photos because it would take too long.
That is when her dad brought in a second opinion. He had his usual mechanic work on the car, and that mechanic reportedly confirmed the boots had been "intentionally cut."
The poster says she is now trying to figure out what can be done legally. The question hanging over the whole story is how a car that went in for an oil change ended up with damaged boots, a fresh leak, and a shop claiming expensive axle work was suddenly necessary.